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Fernando García-Arenal

Fernando García-Arenal

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Biology and Biochemistry
Spain
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
11344
World Ranking
9897
National Ranking
193

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Fernando García-Arenal is affiliated with the Technical University of Madrid in Spain. Their research focuses extensively on plant sciences, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several subfields including plant science, genetics, endocrinology, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's main research topics include plant virus research studies, plant parasitism and resistance, evolution and genetic dynamics, plant and fungal interactions research, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, plant disease resistance and genetics, and studies involving both plants and animals.

Frequent coauthors in their work are:

  • Aurora Fraile
  • Israel Pagán
  • Michael McLeish
  • Bisola Mercy Babalola
  • Adrián Peláez

Their publications appear predominantly in journals such as Viruses, Phytopathology, New Phytologist, Virus Evolution, and Molecular Plant Pathology.

Recent papers include:

  • "Tolerance of Plants to Pathogens: A Unifying View," 2020, Annual Review of Phytopathology
  • "Coexistence of nestedness and modularity in host-pathogen infection networks," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Population Genomics of Plant Viruses: The Ecology and Evolution of Virus Emergence," 2020, Phytopathology
  • "Ecological fitting is the forerunner to diversification in a plant virus with broad host range," 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • "Tobamoviruses Show Broad Host Ranges and Little Genetic Diversity Among Four Habitat Types of a Heterogeneous Ecosystem," 2023, Phytopathology

Best Publications

  • Variability and genetic structure of plant virus populations.

    Fernando García-Arenal;Aurora Fraile;José M. Malpica

  • The evolution of virulence and pathogenicity in plant pathogen populations

    Soledad Sacristán;Fernando García‐Arenal

  • An Analysis of the Durability of Resistance to Plant Viruses

    Fernando García-Arenal;Bruce A. McDonald

  • Molecular Basis of Virus Evolution

    Adrian J. Gibbs;Charles H. Calisher;Fernando García-Arenal

  • Variation and evolution of plant virus populations

    Fernando García-Arenal;Aurora Fraile;José M. Malpica

  • The Rate and Character of Spontaneous Mutation in an RNA Virus

    José M Malpica;Aurora Fraile;Ignacio Moreno;Clara I Obies

  • Evolution and emergence of plant viruses

    Santiago F. Elena;Aurora Fraile;Fernando García-Arenal

  • Genetic Exchange by Recombination or Reassortment Is Infrequent in Natural Populations of a Tripartite RNA Plant Virus

    Aurora Fraile;Jose Luis Alonso-Prados;Miguel A. Aranda;Juan J. Bernal

  • Estimation of Population Bottlenecks during Systemic Movement of Tobacco Mosaic Virus in Tobacco Plants

    Soledad Sacristán;José M. Malpica;Aurora Fraile;Fernando García-Arenal

  • Multiple infection, recombination and genome relationships among begomovirus isolates found in cotton and other plants in Pakistan

    Ana I. Sanz;Aurora Fraile;Fernando Garcı́a-Arenal;Xueping Zhou

  • A century of tobamovirus evolution in an Australian population of Nicotiana glauca.

    A Fraile;F Escriu;M A Aranda;J M Malpica

  • Role of recombination in the evolution of natural populations of Cucumber mosaic virus, a tripartite RNA plant virus

    Julien Bonnet;Aurora Fraile;Soledad Sacristán;José M. Malpica

  • Time--the emerging dimension of plant virus studies.

    A. J. Gibbs;Denis Fargette;F. Garcia-Arenal;M. J. Gibbs

  • Ecosystem simplification, biodiversity loss and plant virus emergence.

    Marilyn J Roossinck;Marilyn J Roossinck;Fernando García-Arenal

  • Variability and genetic structure of the population of watermelon mosaic virus infecting melon in Spain

    I.M. Moreno;J.M. Malpica;J.A. Dı́az-Pendón;E. Moriones

  • Estimation of the Effective Number of Founders That Initiate an Infection after Aphid Transmission of a Multipartite Plant Virus

    Mónica Betancourt;Alberto Fereres;Aurora Fraile;Fernando García-Arenal

  • Role of cucumovirus capsid protein in long-distance movement within the infected plant.

    M E Taliansky;F García-Arenal

  • Genetic Structure of the Population of Pepino mosaic virus Infecting Tomato Crops in Spain.

    Israel Pagán;María del Carmen Córdoba-Sellés;Llucia Martínez-Priego;Aurora Fraile

  • Tolerance to Plant Pathogens: Theory and Experimental Evidence.

    Israel Pagán;Fernando García-Arenal

  • The Multiplicity of Infection of a Plant Virus Varies during Colonization of Its Eukaryotic Host

    Pablo González-Jara;Aurora Fraile;Tomás Canto;Fernando García-Arenal

Frequent Co-Authors

Aurora Fraile
Aurora Fraile Technical University of Madrid
Miguel A. Aranda
Miguel A. Aranda Spanish National Research Council
Adrian J. Gibbs
Adrian J. Gibbs Australian National University
Enrique Moriones
Enrique Moriones Spanish National Research Council
Peter Palukaitis
Peter Palukaitis Seoul Women's University
Carlos Alonso-Blanco
Carlos Alonso-Blanco Spanish National Research Council
Milton Zaitlin
Milton Zaitlin Cornell University
Alberto Fereres
Alberto Fereres Spanish National Research Council
Andrés Moya
Andrés Moya University of Valencia
Santiago F. Elena
Santiago F. Elena Santa Fe Institute

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